Gone with the Tide

Hello,
A really beautiful tune composed by Jock Agnew who sadly died in October this year. Written for border pipes - this is it played on Scottish Smallpipes in A.
:)
Enjoy
Vicki

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Dusty Pipes

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A nice little tune that I teach, so thought I should upload a video of it!
Enjoy
:))
Vx

Virtual Session in the bar at Halsway Manor - The säckpipa session!

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I'm pretty sure most people will know I spend most of my time on my nyckelharpa blog. I've been running a virtual session there since the middle of May. This week however, Jonny couldn't be with me and it became a säckpipa friendly session! So join in with me and see what happens when Jonny can't come!

The tune list is as follows:

• Långdans från Sollerön
• Menuetto efter Sven Donat
• Pollonesse efter Andreas Dahlgren Nr. 87
• Röra Röret
• Gärdsbygubbarnas Polska
• PDF of the dots
• Blog entry for this session

As we've said before, these sessions take a lot of time to put together and we definitely enjoy doing them. But I am up against a pretty hard deadline with the Virtual Halsway - so there may not be any sessions between now and then as I put together that weekend.

This leads me on to two little adverts!

The Virtual Halsway Weekend. I should have been at Halsway Manor on the 18th and 19th September with many other nyckelharpa players. As we can't do this I'm running some online workshops and session. You'll find all the information on my actual website - Click here! But we have Peter Hedlund, Leif Alpsj¨ø and Thor Pleijel doing some Zoom workshops. I am giving a nyckelharpa focussed Zoom concert in the evening. So check out the website and get yourself booked on!!

My second advert is for a Crowdfunding project I'm doing - an album of Dances from Terpsichore by Praetorius on nyckelharpa quintet. As of today I'm at 50% funded with three weeks to go.  Check it out!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hearts-eyes

See you at the session on Sunday!

:))

Vicki

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Polska efter Oppigårds Lars

Hello!
A really popular polska this week!
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

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Polska efter Lennart Skoglund

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A polska today. The full title is really - Polska ur Lennart Skoglunds Notbok. There are some lovely little quirky things in the rhythm in the second half so watch out!
Enjoy!
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Vx

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Whist With A Twist

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It's time for a Scottish small pipe tune that I wrote today. It's a great tune for technique as well as rocking along. It's a four part jig that I wrote when I was playing around with the idea of implying chords within pipe tunes. You need to make sure your fingers are really accurate! Don't be sloppy when it's slow as it'll be impossible to play accurately fast!

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Vicki

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Schottis efter Axel Sjölander

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It's time for a schottis! We've not had one for a while! This is another one from Småland - Tingsås. It was found in the manuscript by Magnus Gustafsson.
Enjoy!
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Vx

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Menueto efter Sven Donat

Hello!
A really lovely simple little tune from the collection of Sven Donat in Småland.
Enjoy!
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Vx

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